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Mary Wilson. Photo: Getty Images for the Ryan Gordy Mary Wilson, Motown Records vocalist and co-founding member of the Supremes, has died at age 76. Wilson died suddenly at her home in Nevada, her publicist told Variety. The circumstances of her death were not immediately revealed. Funeral services will be private due to the coronavirus pandemic, but a public memorial will be held later this year. Two days prior to her death, Wilson announced in a YouTube video that she was working with Universal Music Group to release solo material. She also said she was looking forward to upcoming interviews, as part of Black History Month, about the Supremes’ experience with racial segregation. “I was always proud of Mary,” Motown Records founder Berry Gordy said in a statement to Variety Monday night. “She was quite a star in her own right and over the years continued to work hard to boost the legacy of the Supremes. Mary Wilson was extremely special to me. She was a … [Read more...] about Mary Wilson, Original Member of the Supremes, Is Dead at 76

Photo: Cafe Today marks the start of President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, a historic proceeding of TBD significance that will serve at least two functions as it plays out. The first is an assessment as to whether the country’s institutions will hold the former president accountable for fueling the insurrection at the Capitol last month with his rhetoric, and the second is to function as a kind of litmus test sussing out the shape of the American public’s relationship with politics writ large as we drift deeper into the Biden presidency. Given the incentives of Senate Republicans, the former outcome feels all but predetermined. The latter, though, seems much less clear. It’s been posited numerous times over the last few years that the Trump presidency compelled more Americans towards greater engagement with political news — if not actual political participation — than ever before. But in the wake of Biden’s … [Read more...] about Preet Bharara Navigates the Post-Trump Podcast Boom

Daniel Kaluuya as Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah. Photo: Glen Wilson/Warner Bros. When one thinks of Hollywood biopics, the identical twin comedians Keith and Kenny Lucas do not immediately spring to mind. The former law students rose to fame by shedding their stuffy credentials to craft a stand-up career that culminated in the 2017 Netflix special On Drugs. They built a broader casual stoner aesthetic by earning roles in 22 Jump Street and the The Grinder , and helming the animated show Lucas Bros Moving Co . You’d be forgiven for not knowing that, since at least 2010, they’d been trying to turn a little-understood portion of Black history into the kind of sprawling Hollywood film that makes awards-seasons forecasters stir: a movie about Fred Hampton. Unlike his predecessors and contemporaries — Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Kwame Ture — Hampton, the 21-year-old chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, has been largely confined … [Read more...] about Finding the Judas in

This is by far the most diverse and adventurous slate of nominees in recent memory. Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Getty Images Jann Wenner, the longtime editor and publisher of Rolling Stone , left his position as CEO of the ever-dubious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year. And already the Hall’s slate of 2021 nominations , released Wednesday morning, shows that the new CEO, I Heart Radio vet John Sykes, seems to be cracking some heads together. This is by far the most diverse and adventurous slate of nominees in recent memory. This being the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a lot of the nominees are evidence of the Hall’s deeply imbedded chumminess and insiderism, but the results of Sykes’s interventions are plain: Seven of the 16 nominated acts are women. One is an African legend. One is a hip-hop star in his first year of eligibility and another is a hip-hop/R&B diva of the first order. Some of the women nominated are long overdue. And only a churl will snipe at the … [Read more...] about All of the 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees, Ranked

Photo: Katie Yu/Netflix This Friday, Netflix wrapped up its sparkly rom-com trilogy of Lara Jean Covey’s time in high school with To All the Boys: Always and Forever . After falling into a relationship with her crush Peter Kavinsky thanks to an old love letter in the first movie , wrestling with her attraction to another crush in the second , Lara Jean’s got a new paramour in her life, only this time around it’s [cue Sex and the City music] the city of New York! Peter gets into Stanford and Lara Jean doesn’t, but then she finds herself longing for a new life across the country at NYU. Meanwhile, there’s also a dreamy trip to Seoul, stressed-out parental dynamics, a wedding, scrunchies, and her younger sister’s discovery of boys. Vulture’s Devon Ivie and Jackson McHenry got together to discuss this melancholic end of an era. Warning: Spoilers ahead. Jackson McHenry: What a journey we’ve been on with Lara Jean. She fell in love in one movie, was caught in a … [Read more...] about And Now, Some Discourse About the Ending of the